Deborah Harkness Quotes

Medieval Europeans did not much fear witches until they created an inquisition to find them.

It's a bit like the search for witches. You can always find them.

The emphasis on sorcery reflected accusations by the authorities more than it did actual practice. Being threatened, the Church responded by virulent persecution.

For my part, I have ever believed, and do so now, that there are witches.

Witchcraft was hung, in History, But History and I Find all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day -

I would love to make some kind of film about the witches and the Inquisitions. That would be really fun because I don't think their stories have been told enough.

I did magic all my life from the time I was 12, and I like to tap into the magic from history.

When it draws near to witching time of night.

I don't know that I have a fascination with witches per se - well, maybe I just have a fascination with everything that's weird.

I am not a witch doctor, and in fact, you cannot have a witch doctor. You are either a witch or a doctor.

Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.

The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.

I really don't believe in magic.

I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.

Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.

For a while I was collecting Satan and devil stuff - you know, anything that had to do with old Beelzebub or Lucifer. But I had to put the brakes on it, because there's a lot of stuff out there, and the collection was just growing too quickly.

The number of witches had everywhere become enormous.

Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.

I'm constantly trying to mine the DNA of John Constantine and stay true to that character in the comic books.

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

I don't have an album cover with me on a broomstick.

I've been obsessed with demons since reading 'The Elfstones of Shannara' and 'Master of the Five Magics' by Lyndon Hardy.

In the middle ages when people were convinced there were witches, they certainly found them.

A witch is one who worketh by the Devil or by some curious art either healing or revealing things secret, or foretelling things to come which the Devil hath devised to ensnare men's souls …

Witchcraft and priestcraft, were introduced into this world together, … and has gone on, hand in hand together